Obama would win a landslide second term — in Canada

President Obama is the candidate preferred by two-thirds of voters in a country with which the U.S. shares a 4,000-mile border, according to a Globescam poll conducted for Great Britain’s BBC World Service, in which 1,002 adult Canadians were asked who they would pick in America’s presidential election.

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Obama took 66 percent in the survey of the Great White North, compared to 9 percent for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The remaining Canadians had no opinion or said there was no difference between the two American presidential candidates. Oh yes, there’s also a gender gap in Canada: Obama was the choice of 71 percent of the women surveyed by Globescam, but only 62 percent of Canada’s men.

The 44th president scored highest at 79 percent in French-speaking Quebec, and lowest at 60 percent in oil-rich Alberta and “lotus land” British Columbia. Mitt Romney gets his highest level of support — 15 percent — in Alberta. In British Columbia, where the political left is a big presence, 14 percent said there was no difference between Obama and Romney.

Canadians have generally tended to bond more with Democratic than Republican presidents.

President Nixon, in one White House tape, called Canada’s Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau “an a**hole,” promoting a memorable reply from Trudeau: “I’ve been called worse things by better men.” Then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien had his invitation to visit George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, withdrawn after Canada refused to send troops to participate in the Iraq War. In 2000, Bush became the butt of a gag by Canadian comedian Rick Mercer when he did not recognize Chretien’s name.

By contrast, Chretien and Bill Clinton are longtime buddies who’ve played rounds at Vancouver’s posh Shaughnessy Golf Course, whose staff has been somewhat taken aback by Clinton’s tendency to take mulligans. Lyndon Johnson and then-Prime Minister Lester Pearson signed the Columbia River Treaty at the Peace Arch in Blaine.

The poll of Canadians was one of a series of 21 surveys done for the BBC World Service.

In Canada, Obama held stead at two-thirds of the vote. He would take 72 percent of the vote in France. But in the land of his father, Kenya, Obama has dropped from 87 percent support down to 66 percent. Only in Pakistan — haven of Osama bin Laden, land of U.S. drone strikes — does Romney beat Obama. He gets 14 percent to 11 percent for Obama.